YORUBAS HATRED ON BIAFRANS: A RESENTMENT AND ENVY; AND THE SOLUTION

The incessant
threats of eviction, annihilation and inhuman treatments given to Biafrans
living in Lagos and other places in Nigeria should be a thing of concern and
worry to every sane mind from Eastern region and beyond.It is worrisome that no other tribe in
Nigeria receives such inhuman treatments. Not that it is justified if other
tribes are treated in like manner. No.I
stand to condemn evil no matter who is involved or affected. The treatment is
unwholesome.

One great
philosopher once said, “time heals all wounds". Time with patience cures
every heart-breaking memories. It ameliorates problems and hard decisions. But
we have come to discover that as the day goes by, the ordeal of Biafrans in
Nigeria since after the war grows worse. From threat of being thrown into
lagoon to leaving Lagos or north has become the fate of Biafrans the moment
Biafrans want to decide on some national legal discourse. Who did we offend in
Nigeria? Why are they conspiring against us? After the war, they declared
"No victor no vanquish”, little did the world know it was a prank to cool
their nerves while they perpetrate the worst. Worse have been happening. The
worst is about to happen. They are congregating. Yorubas are warming up, the
north waiting for their (Yoruba) signal to carry out another ethnic
cleansing.The recent happening during
the presidential election is a warning signal to all sound Biafrans that we are
not Nigerians, we are not part of Nigeria. They could not have stopped us from
voting where we registered if we are one with them as they claim in their
misleading, antithetical slogan, "one-Nigeria".

It is lugubrious
and foolhardy for one to argue that Biafrans deserve the hatred from the
Yorubas and Northerners. Biafrans are not in any way competing for or occupying
strategic government positions or job to say, that's why they hate us. Our only
offence is the spirit of enterprise and intrepidity that drive us.

It is therefore
time Biafrans living in Yoruba land and Northern part of Nigeria think home.
There is no place like home. No one asks you to leave your investments or
auction them and come home but let not all your investment be concentrated
there; and stop investing more in another man's land. It is our rich
investments in Lagos and North that create the ambition among the greedy
Northerners and lazy Yorubas to threaten us with quit notice. Had we no mouth-watering
investments in their lands and developed the land for them no one would be
threatening the other.

We must think
home. Lagos is not a no man's land. It is owned by people.Biafraland is our land. A man no more
welcomed where he sojourned should start thinking home. It is a matter of time;
all things settle right when we come home.

Let's join hand
and build our home. Biafra is here waiting for us to embrace her. We cannot be
squatting in another man's land and threatened as it pleases them when we have
a place we can call our home. Let's think home. Let's think Biafra for our
future.